Cell Broadcast testing is underway for emergency use
Posted Dec 11th 2006 2:12PM by Brian White
Filed under: Cellular, Government, Applications
CellCast held a test last month that had the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) probably quite interested. In the test, CellCast tested the *Cell Broadcast* feature that lets an operator or authorized agency
send out a text message to every phone on a cell, in an area or on the entire network at once.
In other words, in terms of an emergency (local or national), the prevalence of text messaging could be used to warn citizens all at once, since some televisions and radios may not be nearby -- but our cellphones are almost always on us these days.
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